Lovesick

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This article is about the 1983 film. For other uses, see Love Sick (disambiguation).

Lovesick
Lovesick DVD cover
Directed by	Marshall Brickman
Produced by	Charles Okun
Written by	Marshall Brickman
Starring	Dudley Moore Elizabeth McGovern Alec Guinness Christine Baranski Anne De Salvo Otto Bettmann
Music by	Philippe Sarde
Cinematography	Gerry Fisher
Editing by	Nina Feinberg
Distributed by	The Ladd Company Warner Bros.
Release dates	February 18, 1983
Running time	95 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$10,143,618 (USA)

Lovesick is a 1983 romantic comedy film. It was written and directed by Marshall Brickman. It stars Dudley Moore and Elizabeth McGovern and features Alec Guinness as the ghost of Sigmund Freud.

Plot

Psychologist Saul Benjamin takes on a patient temporarily as a favor to a colleague friend, Otto Jaffe, who is infatuated with her. After her doctor dies, Chloe Allen comes to see Dr. Benjamin and immediately he is smitten with her, too.

The doctor-patient relationship is violated by Dr. Benjamin's romantic impulses toward Chloe and by his intense jealousy of anyone who comes near her, including Ted Caruso, an arrogant Broadway actor with whom she has become involved. The psychiatrist's wife also is carrying on an affair with Jac Applezweig, an artist.

The ghost of Dr. Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychology, visits Dr. Benjamin from time to time to dispense warnings and wisdom. Benjamin's work begins to suffer as he abandons patients like Mrs. Mondragon, finding her tedious, and treats the cakeia of another, Marvin Zuckerman, by designing a peculiar handmade hat for him to wear.

A board of inquiry calls in Dr. Benjamin to consider revoking his license. In the end, he admits his feelings to Chloe and concludes that he prefers true love to treating the sick.

Cast

Dudley Moore as Saul Bejmamin
Elizabeth McGovern as Chloe Allen
Alec Guinness as Sigmund Freud
Wallace Shawn as Otto Jaffe
Ron Silver as Ted Caruso
John Huston as Dr. Larry Geller
Alan King as Dr. Lionel Gross
Selma Diamond as Dr. Harriet Singer
Larry Rivers as Jac Applezweig
David Strathairn as Zuckerman
Christine Baranski as the Nymphomaniac
Renée Taylor as Mrs. Mondragon

External links

Lovesick at the Internet Movie Database
Lovesick at allmovie
Lovesick at Rotten Tomatoes

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